Sunday, April 20, 2014

Two of our usual deadlines have passed since the publication of our last issue. I apologize for the delays in publication; I've been overwhelmed for the past six months or so with non-SxSE work and projects. I've been trying to keep up with our correspondence with varying levels of success.

For your records, the most recent issue we published was 20:2, and 20:3 is the upcoming issue made up of submissions from the 9/15/13 deadline. We plan to consider submissions from our 12/15/13 and 4/15/14 deadlines for issue 21:1.

Your subscription status is measured by the number of issues you receive (3 per subscription year), not calendar year, so please know that your subscriptions will be fulfilled.

Thanks for your patience and as always for sharing your work with us --
Josh

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Thanks again to everyone for your patience as we get the long-delayed issue 20:2 to press. We're simultaneously reviewing submissions from the Sept. 15th deadline for issue 20:3, so I hope to have that out shortly afterward.
To hold you over until issue 20:2 hits mailboxes in about 3 weeks, here are the two haiku that will be featured as Editors' Choices:

Sunday, August 25, 2013

My apologies for delayed responses and the delayed publication for our Summer 2013 issue. It is still in the works and will be on the way to you before long. Our next usual deadline is coming up on September 15th, so please do plan to send us new work for the Fall issue. We may extend that deadline, though, since the Summer issue is late getting to your mailboxes.

Thanks for your patience and, as always, for sharing your work and attention with us!

Friday, December 7, 2012

Hard to believe, but it's submission deadline time again! Please send us your best haiku, senryu, haibun, haiga, and renge to be considered for issue XX:1. Submission guidelines are in the sidebar to the right.

XX:1? That's right, we're starting our 20th year! Celebrations are in order -- we'll see what we can cook up. In the meantime, we look forward to seeing your work.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Thank you to everyone who submitted work for the upcoming issue. We're reviewing your submissions now and will be in touch with our decisions within a couple of weeks.

It is with a mixture of sadness and excitement that we're announcing editorial changes at SxSE. After a dozen years at the helm, Stephen Addiss is stepping down as the managing editor. Many thanks to him for all of the thought and work he's put into the journal over those years.

I'll be taking the reins as we go forward, starting with issue 19:3. The only operational change you should notice is in the addresses you send your submissions to. Our new mailing address and email address are both in the sidebar on the right. We'll keep the same deadlines, schedule, and prices, and publish according to the same standards as we have for years.

I've considered Steve to be a mentor since I started learning about haiku from him as an eager undergrad almost 20 years ago. So it's both intimidating and invigorating to pick up his work with SxSE.

My main work these days is as a book artist, so I look forward to giving SxSE a facelift. You can look for aesthetic changes in the issues ahead -- maybe even some handmade issues if we can swing it.

In the meantime, thank you for your support, your patience as we make these changes, and as always, for sending us your work. That's the only reason we can exist.

About South by Southeast

South by Southeast was founded by Ken Liebman to be the quarterly newsletter of the Southeast Region of the Haiku Society of America in 1993. When Jim Kacian became editor the next year, he changed its focus to become a broader, international journal of haiku. When Jim went on to become editor of Frogpond in 1998 he passed SxSE along into the care of members of the Richmond Haiku Workshop (Richmond, VA). Stephen Addiss was SxSE's managing editor from 2000-2012. The current managing editor is Josh Hockensmith.

Submission deadlines are April 15th, Sept. 15th, and Dec. 15th. We invite contributors to submit 1 to 2 pages of haiku, senryu, renga, haibun, or black-and-white haiga per issue.